Possum Holler is just down the road from Dogpatch, home of L’il Abner, based on the costumes, the exaggerated diction, and the sex-crazed, half-clothed country honeys out to nab them a man! (Who, though, came up with “cotched” for caught?)

The girls fight more literally than usual over Archie, who’s little more than a plot device afeared of gittin’ hitched. I love Veronica threatening to stomp Betty Lou “flatter’n a toad frog”. Is “toad frog” redundant? Are they typically flat?

Jughead’s still got a funny hat, but it’s a really different funny hat.

Dad’s completely out of character, after Archie to marry into the Lodge fortune (which is, as always, relative). Nice wife beater, too.

And he’s not above inserting himself in the fray. Check out that great pratfall in panel 4 of page 4! The material might be the hoariest corn, but the cartooning’s still lovely.

And then comes Reggie, with an oddly modern no-side haircut and the timeless vest, no shirt macho look.

According to the OED, catched and cotched are still both widely prevalent in dialect and vulgar speech, and date back to a time in Middle English when a regular form of catch existed alongside the current irregular one.